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The Hiwassee drainage basin, which includes the Ocoee River, located within the upper Tennessee drainage basin. The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long (150 km) [3] [better source needed] river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States.
Ocoee Dam Number 1 is a hydroelectric dam on the Ocoee River in Polk County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The dam impounds the 1,930-acre (780 ha) Parksville Reservoir (often called Ocoee Lake or Parksville Lake) and is the farthest downstream of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Ocoee Dam No. 2 is located 24 miles (39 km) above the mouth of the Ocoee River, near the center of the Ocoee Gorge, a steep-sided valley sliced as the Ocoee winds its way westward through the Appalachian Mountains. Ocoee No. 2 is 12 miles (19 km) upstream from Ocoee Dam No. 1 and 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from Ocoee Dam No. 3. The flume ...
Ocoee Dam No. 3 is located 29 miles (47 km) above the mouth of the Ocoee River, where the river slices a deep gap between Little Frog Mountain to the north and Big Frog Mountain to the south. Both of these mountains are protected by federal wilderness areas which are adjacent to TVA's Ocoee No. 3 reservation boundary.
Bridge over the Hiwassee River: US 411 south (SR 33 south) – Benton: Eastern end of US 411/SR 33 concurrency; SR 30 turns secondary: Reliance: SR 315 north (Reliance Road) – Tellico Plains: Southern terminus of SR 315: Cherokee National Forest: 118.15: 190.14: US 64 / US 74 (Ocoee Scenic Byway/SR 40) – Cleveland, Ocoee, Ducktown
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The Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, was the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, [1] [2] and is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slalom competition. A 1,640 foot (500 m) stretch of the Upper Ocoee River was narrowed by two-thirds to create the drops and eddies needed for a ...
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